加州灰熊去哪了：河滨市博物馆新展《加州灰熊》在 Orange Terrace 社区中心开幕
位于加州河滨县河滨市的河滨市博物馆（Museum of Riverside）最新「迷你博物馆」展览《加州灰熊：我们标志性州动物的自然与人文史》已于 10 月 30 日在 Orange Terrace 社区中心开幕，10 月 30 日下午的开幕活动上，博物馆自然史策展人 Ian M. Wright 作了专题讲解，现场还备有以灰熊食谱为灵感的主题餐点。
展览用多个展区讲清「什么才是灰熊」：它们的食性、行为与惊人的体型。观众可以与一头真人大小的灰熊剪影面对面站立，把自己的手掌与灰熊的爪子比大小，触摸灰熊毛皮的复制品，展柜里还有一具巨大的灰熊头骨复制品。视频展区播放灰熊的生活画面，也回溯它们在南加州一带的历史——灰熊曾遍布加州，包括南部地区，全州最后被猎杀的灰熊之一，就死在橙县。
展览还通过地图与历史插图，讲述拓荒者与灰熊的冲突，以及原住民族群数千年来与灰熊共处的故事，并教观众用原住民语言说「灰熊」。博物馆提醒：尽管灰熊印在加州州旗上，野生灰熊在加州已经绝迹约一百年——最后的目击记录出现在北加州。
Orange Terrace 社区中心地址为 20010 Orange Terrace Parkway, Riverside。河滨市博物馆是河滨市政府下属部门，其市中心主馆目前因修缮暂时关闭，这类走进社区中心的「迷你博物馆」是博物馆在修缮期把展览送到居民身边的做法。
Where Did California's Grizzlies Go? Museum of Riverside Opens 'California's Grizzlies' at Orange Terrace
The Museum of Riverside, in the city of Riverside in California's Riverside County, has opened its newest "mini-museum," California's Grizzlies: The Natural and Human History of Our Iconic State Animal, at the Orange Terrace Community Center. The exhibition opened on October 30, when Curator of Natural History Ian M. Wright gave a talk at the opening reception, which also featured a grizzly-themed grazing table of foods the bears would eat.
Exhibit sections explain what makes a grizzly a grizzly — their diet, behavior and sheer size. Visitors can stand toe-to-toe with a life-sized grizzly silhouette, compare their hand size to a grizzly's paw, feel a replica of grizzly fur, and see a gigantic replica skull on display. A video section shows the bears' lives and explores their local history: grizzlies were once common across California, including Southern California, and one of the last grizzlies killed in the state met its end in Orange County.
Through maps and historic illustrations, the exhibition also explores the conflict between settlers and grizzlies and the story of local Indigenous peoples, who lived with the bears as part of their environment for millennia — visitors can even learn how to say "grizzly bear" in native languages. As the museum notes, although the grizzly graces California's state flag, wild grizzlies have been gone from the state for about a century; the last sightings were in Northern California.
The Orange Terrace Community Center is at 20010 Orange Terrace Parkway, Riverside. The Museum of Riverside is a City of Riverside department; with its downtown main museum temporarily closed for renovation, these community-center "mini-museums" are how the museum brings exhibitions to residents in the meantime.
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图片来源：图：河滨市博物馆主馆大楼（资料图）；本展设在 Orange Terrace 社区中心。图片：经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Museum of Riverside main building (file photo); the exhibition is at the Orange Terrace Community Center. Via Wikimedia Commons.
